Event: 54th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum
The 54th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF 54) will convene under the theme, ‘Mitigating Climate Risks for Resilience’. It will bring together climate scientists, researchers, users...
View ArticleEvent: 52nd Session of the IPCC
The 52nd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 52) will convene from 24-28 February 2020. The IPCC is currently in its sixth assessment cycle. The outputs for this cycle are:...
View ArticleEvent Discusses Africa’s Development “in the Age of Stranded Assets”
The discussion highlighted associated risks of asset stranding and its impacts on mineral-rich countries in Africa, as well as opportunities related to green transitions and economic diversification....
View ArticleWMO’s First State of Climate Services Report Focuses on Agriculture and Food...
The report was produced under the auspices of the Global Framework for Climate Services partnership, and aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of what is needed to enhance access to climate...
View ArticleReport Identifies Ten Climate Science Insights to Achieve Paris Agreement, SDGs
The guide summarizes recent Earth-system science, policy, public health and economic research that aims to help achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the SDGs. Report co-author...
View ArticleEvent: World Meteorological Day 2020
World Meteorological Day takes place every year on 23 March, commemorating the date in 1950 when the Convention establishing the World Meteorological Organization came into force. It showcases the...
View ArticleTechnology, Climate and Hunger Linked in High-level Discussion
The event, titled ‘Linking Technological Innovation and Climate Change Actions for a World Free of Hunger, Malnutrition, and Poverty,’ underscored the importance of bringing SDG 2 into climate...
View ArticleHydromet Alliance to Strengthen Early Warning and Climate Information Systems
Members of the Alliance will ramp up action to strengthen developing country capacity to deliver hydromet services, inclusive of high-quality weather forecasts, early warning systems, and water,...
View ArticleWMO Reports on 2019's High-Impact Climate Events
The report highlights the physical indicators of climate change, such as increasing land and ocean heat, ocean acidification and deoxygenation, accelerating sea level rise and melting ice. A recent...
View ArticleGuest Article: The 2020 Data Drive: Joining Forces to Report on Progress...
To close the data gap with regard to SDG 6 and to advance trend analysis of existing data, in March 2020, the second round of a global data compilation drive was launched for seven SDG 6 indicators....
View ArticleSDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework to Scale Up Water and Sanitation Action...
Speakers at the launch event emphasized the value of UN efforts to deliver as one at the country level and interlinkages between action on SDG 6 and other SDGs. Secretary-General Guterres stressed that...
View ArticleGHG Concentrations Hit Record Highs Despite COVID-19, Leading Science...
The publication highlights the negative and irreversible impacts of rising global emissions and climate change on oceans and seas, ecosystems and economies, water resources, and human well-being and...
View ArticleEuropean RFSD Considers Policy Actions for People, Prosperity, and Planet
The UN Economic Commission for Europe held the fifth annual meeting of the regional forum on sustainable development. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed provided suggestions for policymakers in...
View ArticleWorking Groups Develop Recommendations for Just, Inclusive Energy Transitions
Five technical working groups are revising their draft reports that will feed into a global roadmap to achieving SDG 7 by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. Preparations for the September high-level...
View ArticleEvent: 54th Session of the IPCC (IPCC-54) and 14th Session of the Working...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) started preparations for its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in 2015. From 26 July to 6 August 2021, the IPCC will meet to approve the Summary for...
View ArticleIPCC Assessment of Climate Change Science Finds Many Changes are Irreversible
The findings are presented in the IPCC Working Group I's Summary for Policymakers, which was approved following eleven days of line-by-line negotiations. The WG I report is the first of three WG...
View ArticleEvent: 55th Session of the IPCC (IPCC 55) and WGII AR6 Approval Plenary...
The 55th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 55) will take place in conjunction with the Working Group II (WGII) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Approval Plenary (WGII-12)....
View ArticleEvent: 56th Session of the IPCC (IPCC 56) and WGIII AR6 Approval Plenary...
The 56th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 56) will take place in conjunction with the Working Group III (WGIII) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Approval Plenary (WGIII-14)....
View ArticleEvent: 16th Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS 2021)
The 16th Annual Session of Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS 2021) will be held on the theme: 'Accelerate Green Transformation and Innovation towards Healthy, Resilient and Carbon-neutral...
View ArticleFinancing Facility to Support LDCs and SIDS on Climate Observations
The Systematic Observations Finance Facility (SOFF) will address the problem of missing weather and climate observations from Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States. SOFF was...
View ArticleEvent: 57th session of the IPCC (IPCC 57)
The 57th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 57) will be a business Plenary session with agenda items including the work of the Ad Hoc Group on Elections and the IPCC Trust...
View ArticleLatest IPCC Report Stresses Carbon Dioxide Removal, Low-emission Technologies
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s working group on reducing greenhouse gas emissions met to finalize a summary of its latest report, which targets policymakers. Carbon dioxide removal...
View ArticleSDG 6 Event at HLPF 2022 Reviews Themes and Inputs for UN 2023 Water Conference
Delegates were briefed on the outcomes of the 2021 Bonn Water Dialogues for Results, the 9th World Water Forum, the 4th Asia-Pacific Water Summit, the High-Level Symposium on Water at the 2022 UN Ocean...
View ArticleGuest Article: Better Planning of Adaptation Action for Better Outcomes
Planned adaptation includes incentivizing on-farm options through policies and actions, but also goes far beyond an only on-farm focus to a diverse spectrum of actions. Anticipatory resilience building...
View ArticleMulti-agency Climate Science Report Warns About “Tipping Points”
The report warns that “urgent action is needed to mitigate emissions and adapt to our changing climate”. It also notes that climate-related disasters “set back progress towards achieving the [SDGs] and...
View ArticleIPCC Prepares to Transition to Seventh Assessment Cycle
With approval of the Synthesis Report from the sixth assessment cycle delayed until March 2023, many governments made “unusually blunt statements of discontent” concerning the IPCC’s impact and...
View ArticleEvent: High-level Launch of the 2022 State of Climate Services: Energy Report
The High-level Launch of the ‘2022 State of Climate Services: Energy Report’ will take place online on 11 October 2022. Prepared by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and 25 partner...
View ArticleEvent: 58th session of the IPCC (IPCC 58)
The 58th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 58) is scheduled to take place in March 2023. This session is expected to focus on the approval of the Synthesis Report (SYR) of...
View ArticleClimate and Health Linkages Come to the Fore Ahead of COP 27
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change argues that “a health-centered, aligned response to the compounding crises can still deliver a future where people can not only...
View ArticleMinisters Pledge to Increase Efforts to Reduce Methane Emissions
Several countries announced pledges to the CCAC Trust Fund, with new commitments totaling USD 6 million. John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, US, emphasized that achieving the Global...
View ArticleCOP 27 Events Highlight Role of PPPs, Resource Efficiency in Climate Action
Public-private partnerships can spread project costs, improve risk management and efficiencies, and undertake projects previously deemed unattractive or even impossible, said Egypt’s Minister of...
View ArticlePolicy Brief: 2023: Five Areas to Target Through Resolve, Determination, and...
As the UN and other actors pursue global peace efforts and COVID-19 transitions from pandemic to endemic, environmental negotiations are moving on with renewed determination. Some processes, such as...
View ArticleEvent: World Meteorological Day 2023
World Meteorological Day 2023 will focus on the theme, ‘The Future of Weather, Climate and Water across Generations’. Every 23 March, World Meteorological Day commemorates the coming into force of the...
View ArticleUN Flagship Spotlights Role of Partnerships, Cooperation for Water
The report warns that at current rates, progress on all the targets of SDG 6 is off-track. In some areas, it finds, the rate of implementation needs to at least quadruple, to meet the deadline set by...
View ArticleGuest Article: SDG 6 Data for All
IMI-SDG6 provides the evidence base for the UN 2023 Water Conference and the upcoming in-depth review of SDG 6 at the HLPF through its regular progress updates, including the 2021 Summary Progress...
View ArticleIPCC SYR Outlines Climate Actions to Secure Livable Future for All
Delegates conducted line-by-line review of the Summary for Policymakers, which “captures the most essential insights of the SYR and is expected to be the most widely read of the IPCC’s outputs”....
View ArticleEvent: 59th session of the IPCC (IPCC 59)
The 59th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 59) will convene from 25-28 July 2023. The meeting will be the first meeting of the seventh assessment cycle. The IPCC was...
View ArticleWMO Congress Approves GHG Monitoring Initiative to Support Paris Agreement
The Global Greenhouse Gas Watch seeks to facilitate comprehensive, timely, free, and unrestricted international exchange of surface- and space-based GHG observations and modeling products. It will...
View ArticleIPCC Elects New Chair, Bureaux to Guide Its Work for 7th Assessment Cycle
Many delegates “enthusiastically” welcomed the election as IPCC Chair of Jim Skea, who “is known as an efficient and engaging consensus-builder who values transparency”. Attended by 600 participants...
View ArticleWeather, Climate, Water Sciences Can Boost All SDGs: Multi-agency Report
The report provides a high-level compilation of the latest weather, climate, and water-related sciences and services for sustainable development. It focuses on SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 3 (good health...
View ArticleEvent: 60th Session of the IPCC (IPCC-60)
The 60th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-60) will convene from 16-19 January 2024. The meeting will be the second meeting of the seventh assessment cycle. The World...
View ArticleWMO’s 2023 State of Climate Services Report Focuses on Health
Climate information and services are essential for determining how and when climate extremes affect health systems and human health – and for managing risks. The report’s findings reveal “huge”...
View ArticleEvent: One Planet: Polar Summit
The One Planet: Polar Summit will be the first international summit dedicated to glaciers and poles. The Summit will bring together researchers and scientists from over 40 glacial and polar countries...
View ArticleWMO Report Calls for Synergistic Action to Achieve Paris Climate Goals, SDGs
The report finds that the decade was the warmest on record for land and ocean and points to “the profound transformation taking place in Polar regions”. At the same time, the ozone hole was smaller in...
View ArticleCOP 28 Day Spotlights Nature, Land, and Ocean
During a high-level event on sustainable ocean management, speakers emphasized that Sustainable Ocean Plans are integral to addressing the Ocean Breakthroughs, a set of science-based targets launched...
View ArticleEvent: High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy +10
The High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) +10 will convene under the theme, ‘Integrating Practice and Knowledge for Drought Resilience’. The Conference will bring together countries to...
View ArticlePolicy Brief: 2024: A Four-pronged Quest to Rebuild Trust and Restore Hope
It is with hope that the SDG Knowledge Hub’s editorial team looks ahead at 2024. We have identified four areas for policymakers and sustainable development professionals to watch in 2024.
View ArticleIPCC Agrees on Workplan for Its Seventh Assessment Cycle
Governments discussed a range of possibilities for the path forward, “illuminat[ing] diverging views and priorities”. Key divergences concerned the set of outputs for the cycle, delivery timelines for...
View ArticleEvent: 61st Session of the IPCC (IPCC-61)
The 61st session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-61) will convene in July 2024. The meeting will be the third meeting of the seventh assessment cycle. The World Meteorological...
View ArticleClimate Inaction is More Expensive Than Climate Action: WMO Report
The ‘State of the Global Climate 2023’ report confirms that 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average near-surface temperature at 1.45°C above pre-industrial levels. On an average...
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